A group of poets who set a new standard of formal precision in lyric poetry from the 1860s to the 1890s, partly in reaction against the emotional extravagance of romanticism. Adopting Leconte de Lisle as their leader, they followed Theophile Gautier’s principle of art for art’s sake, sometimes championing the virtues of impersonality and of traditional verse-forms.

(Chris Baldick. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, 2001. Adaptado.)

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